Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century

Coggins, Bridget

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“…The case of Northern Cyprus, for instance, reveals that recognition can be a tool for inflicting costs on a rival. Ankara's support for Northern Cyprus cannot be disentangled from the Greek-Turkish rivalry Coggins (2014). finds that countries are be more likely to recognize separatist movements that weaken their rivals and less likely to do so with movements that weaken their friends.…”

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“…Despite their resilience alongside recognized countries, de facto states receive comparatively less attention. We know a lot about when states are born or die (Coggins 2014;Fazal 2007;Hale 2008;Roeder 2007;Spruyt 1994;Tilly 1990;Wimmer 2013), but our understanding of the conditions under which de facto states survive or perish remains partial. The current international order places a great deal of importance on recognition as a condition for sovereign statehood.…”

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De Facto States: Survival and Disappearance (1945–2011)

Florea

2017

International Studies Quarterly

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De facto states-polities, such as Abkhazia (Georgia) or the Donetsk People's Republic (Ukraine), that appropriate many trappings of statehood without securing the status of full states-have been a constant presence in the postwar international order. Some de facto states, such as Northern Cyprus, survive for a long period of time. Others, including Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, are forcefully reintegrated into their parent states. Still others, such as Aceh in Indonesia, disappear as a result of peacemaking. A few, such as Eritrea, successfully transition to full statehood. What explains these very different outcomes? I argue that four factors account for much of this variation: the extent of military assistance that separatists receive from outside actors, the governance activities conducted by separatist insurgents, the fragmentation of the rebel movement, and the influence of government veto players. My analysis relies on an original dataset that includes all breakaway enclaves from 1945 to 2011. The findings enhance our understanding of separatist institutional outcomes, rebel governance, and of the conditions that sustain nonstate territorial actors. * Author's note: I am grateful to Karen Rasler, William R. Thompson, Robert Urbatsch, three anonymous reviewers, and the ISQ editors for their comments and suggestions. Supplementary materials, including the dataset, codebook, and replication files, are available on the ISQ website.

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De Facto States: Survival and Disappearance (1945–2011)

Florea

2017

International Studies Quarterly

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“…However, while we tested our hypotheses using four cases studies in this article that converge and differ in useful ways, further studies are of course needed, both to verify the wider applicability of the external actor thesis, and to properly identify the specific factors influencing the decision of external powers regarding the level of intervention in secessionist conflicts. These should include: geography, strategic choices, nuclear‐armed parent state, economic relations, normative question, and so forth (see Coggins ; Ker‐Lindsay ; and their analysis of the capabilities of states to set their own recognition and engagement criteria). We leave these questions for much‐needed future research projects.…”

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Power and Recognition: How (Super)Powers Decide the International Recognition Process

Riegl

Doboš

2018

Politics & Policy

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The article offers a modified theoretical approach toward the issue of secession and international recognition. Based on the novel political theory of secession as presented by Milena Sterio and the measurement of external involvement in secessionist attempts as researched by Alexis Heraclides, the article provides a theoretical model of modified (super)power rule. The article, based on preliminary conclusions from an internal dataset of secessionist attempts between 1946 and 2016 containing 63 items, argues that effective (super)power support is a sufficient condition for the de facto independence of any secessionist entity. The model is tested on cases of Somaliland, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Kosovo, and Transnistria. Related Articles Related Media MackieMesser. . “The Coconut Revolution.” http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2x5eul KurtRickerd. . “Katanga, the Untold Story (of UN Betrayal).” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvgBvwfW5Dw XBN. . “Transnistria: Places that Don't Exist.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiioOj85X9E Vice News. . “The Sahara's Forgotten War.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju4WrjiJbGc

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“…We also know the potential violence associated with secession conflicts (Coggins ; Sorens ). Territorial demands are at the heart of an important number of civil wars around the world, and it is not necessary to restate just how explosive these conflicts tend to be (Toft ).…”

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Moralism in theories of secession: a realist perspective

Sanjaume‐Calvet

2019

Nations and Nationalism

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Moral reasoning is the most common approach to secession in political philosophy. Just‐cause, choice and liberal‐cultural theories rely on moral conceptions of political authority. This article examines an alternative view through an exploration of moral theories of secession from a realist perspective. Realism has recently seen a revival as a form of normative political philosophy and focuses on political disagreement and legitimacy rather than rights and moral analysis. I claim that realism would reject utopianism and moralism present in theories of secession. Instead of regarding secession as a right, realism would frame secession as a political option. According to this view, this article explores a realist theory of secession that would be based on the priority of politics and disagreement among other concepts. This would be a middle‐ground theory, compatible with liberal values and existing moral theories.

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Power Politics and State Formation in the Twentieth Century

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De Facto States: Survival and Disappearance (1945–2011)

De Facto States: Survival and Disappearance (1945–2011)

Power and Recognition: How (Super)Powers Decide the International Recognition Process

Moralism in theories of secession: a realist perspective

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